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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






2. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






3. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






4. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






5. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






6. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






7. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






8. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






9. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






10. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






11. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






12. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






13. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






14. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






15. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






16. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






17. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






18. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






19. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






20. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






21. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






22. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






23. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






24. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






25. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






26. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






27. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






28. Processes that organize and manage the project team






29. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






30. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






31. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






32. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






33. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






34. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






35. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






36. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






37. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






38. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






39. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






40. A component of work performed during the course of a project






41. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






42. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






43. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






44. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






45. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






46. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






47. Narrative description of products - services or results






48. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






49. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






50. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories